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The anatomy of the myth / Alan T. Nolan -- Jubal A. Early, the lost cause, and Civil War history: a persistent legacy / Gary W. Gallagher -- "Is our love for Wade Hampton foolishness?": South Carolina and the lost cause / Charles J. Holden -- "These few gray-haired, battle-scarred veterans": Confederate Army reunions in Georgia, 1885-95 / Keith S. Bohannon -- New South visionaries: Virginia's last generation of slaveholders, the gospel of progress, and the lost cause / Peter S. Carmichael -- James Longstreet and the lost cause / Jeffry D. Wert -- Continuous hammering and mere attrition: lost cause critics and the military reputation of Ulysses S. Grant / Brooks D. Simpson -- "Let the people see the old life as it was": LaSalle Corbell Pickett and the myth of the lost cause / Lesley J. Gordon -- The immortal Confederacy: another look at lost cause religion / Lloyd A. Hunter.